Powerhouse Consulting Group LLC

Powerhouse Consulting Group LLC, a minority-owned, Subcontinent Asian American-owned small business based in Ellicott City, Maryland, designs and manufactures advanced materials and sensors for chemical and biological threat protection as a prime contractor (81% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on defense R&D programs. The company operates in full-and-open federal procurement, competing without set-aside designations across most of its prime footprint, though one early purchase order carried a Total Small Business set-aside designation.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on 2D melanin coatings for chemical warfare agent protection, phased array antenna design and fabrication for high-power ultra-wideband applications, and materials research in tunable dielectrics and multiferroic materials. Representative prime work includes a $829,510 definitive contract with the Office of Naval Research (award date June 11, 2024) for simulation, design, fabrication, and testing of a scanning phased array antenna over a 30-month performance period through December 9, 2026; multiple purchase orders for 2D melanin coating services and research ($40,000 to $90,919) from ONR between 2022 and 2026; and an ONR project grant (award date August 1, 2022) for implementation of tunable dielectric and multiferroic materials for high-power microwave applications completed by March 31, 2024.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency dominant. The Office of Naval Research represents 16 of 21 total awards (76%) and $1.8 million of $3.4 million combined potential value. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency accounts for 4 awards and $1.6 million in potential value, and the Department of the Army's Materiel Command holds one award. Both top-customer rankings converge on the same agencies — no tension between volume and dollar concentration. Recent activity has averaged two awards annually since 2022, with one award carrying ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months ($830 thousand in potential value). In its subcontractor role, Powerhouse performs technical, analytical, and logistics research under Leidos on a February 2025 award for chemical and biological decontamination sciences research within the Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command. Across three sub-grant awards under Brown University (February 2024, December 2024, and March 2026), Powerhouse develops 2D material film barriers for chemical and biological protection on elastomers, combining breathable coatings with textured micro-architecture and hydrophobic surface grafting to create flexible protective barriers for gloves and contamination-resistant coatings. The vendor's customer base and technical footprint reflect deep specialization in materials science and antenna systems for defense and national security applications.